It isn’t every day that Lexus rolls out a brand-new model, but in hindsight it seems odd that it has taken so long for the company to follow the market into a couple of important areas: compact SUVs and turbocharging. Every third car in America now seems to be a smallish unibody ute of the CR-V/RAV4/Escape ilk; and how else to meet new fuel-efficiency regs but with always smaller and turbocharged engines, or hybrid drive? The 2015 NX series covers all these bases. Also, the best-selling Lexus...

I wonder why people call them “blended families.” Blended suggests some level of instant integration, but it is really a very gradual process over months and possibly years. Perhaps a better term for these families would be “neo-families” or...

USA! USA! USA!In a perfectly timed matchup, the U.S. women's soccer team dominated defending champions Japan 5-2 Sunday to win the Women's World Cup. It is their first title since 1999 and their third World Cup title overall.If...